Re: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 10:35:26 EDT

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    Thomas Chan scripsit:

    > But changing the example to fonts like Arial Unicode MS doesn't completely
    > solve everything--a sans serif font is not the norm for non-trivial
    > quantities of CJK text (compare any book or newspaper).

    Nor any other kind of text, indeed, until the widespread use of Arial/Helvetica,
    which properly is only a display font, as a text font (ugh). 

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